My musings on our homeschool, coop, figuring out what my educational philosophy is anyway, and will I ever make curtains for the rest of the appartment?
When M decided to give K a trip to the New England Aquarium for her family Christmas gift, Dan was really not sure – aren’t Christmas gifts supposed to come in a box and be played with? My argument that Continue reading K’s Christmas Trip to the New England Aquarium
I’ve been meaning to post Dan’s January photos of M’s lego club, and I had not photos of this story. So they don not match, but the kids are still cute. The power went out during poison hour. K ran Continue reading Festive Black Out with unrelated but cute photos of M’s Lego Team
I keep declaring myself all better, doing something normal, then crawling back into bed. During one of those productive times, K and I sat down with math. She (calmly enough, for her) announced that she did not remember what those numbers Continue reading Out of Bed (mostly), doing a little Homeschool
Several years ago, I bought M a carving knife from a nifty online store that carried left handed tools. I forget which one. It came from Japan – talk about mystique. But Dan thought we should wait a bit before handing Continue reading Wood Shaving in the Kitchen
We listened to Brandon Sanderson’s Alcatraz books on the way to and from Pennsylvania. The narrator sounds a lot like Brandon Sanderson himself on the Writing Excuses podcast – good punctuation? We did skip the second book so K would have something to Continue reading K’s Lego portrait of Bastille, from Alcatras VS the Knights of Chrystallia
Pretty We’ve been spending Thursday afternoons at Capron Park, not so much on the monkey bars or zoo (our membership ran out) but making up hide and seek games in the oak trees, climbing around the base of the Civil Continue reading Butternut Squash and Great Fruit for Breakfast {p,f,h,r}
M and I were on an emergency shoe shopping trip to North Attleboro (the plastic heel cup was poking through his shoe!) We also needed some emergency crochet hooks (all my hooks had mysteriously disappeared since I started sharing them Continue reading Hint and Seek led to Fish Census
Pretty, Happy, Funny When my in-laws joined us to help at the Family Fun Fair, they finished K’s bedroom as a 22nd anniversary gift. We were up to stage 2 of our plan, Monday after the fair, they travelled to Continue reading {p,f,h,r} K’s room went from stage 2 to 4 (grandparent boost)
Between Ben’s trip to visit Uncle Warren in Kentucky, the Family Fun Fair at church, recruiting families for M’s F.I.R.S.T. Lego League team, the car needing a new catalytic converter (Dan may have found a waver program for otherwise safe Continue reading {p,f,h,r} August was a blur
Happy A little girl at the park took turns with k riding her bike one evening, this lead to a new interest in bikes. I’d forgotten that we’d been given one K’s size last summer. (Actually, it’s a bit small Continue reading {p,f,h,r} Bikes, Gardens and Oh yeah, we hang out here a lot, lets take a photo
I’m not fond of drill, but I”m glad we’ve been working on connecting numerals to their value, because suddenly K gets them, and place value. We were playing with Cuisanaire Rods, and I remarked that I’d made a square that Continue reading An Arithmetic Breakthrough
M and K have been called upon to play quietly together while I tutor – mostly by collecting puzzles and games from their dusty shelves and camping in the living room with a plate of snacks. Other times they play Continue reading Hercules is funny – who knew?